being a drone - and not a cute, furry animal.

is in a tree,” with, of course, the C.A.T. This first image in the series is called “My C.A.T. is in a tree, by Sonja Christoph I no longer needed to use local subdivisions - V-Ray Next handled all the optimizing for me! My C.A.T. I think it’s an incredibly fun time period for design - and, so, Atom County was born! I figured this kind of look would go really well with a mid-century modern, atomic-age world. I always try to learn something new whenever I do personal work I also picked up Blender for modeling on this project. It’s not at all what I normally do, which made it a completely new challenge for me - which got me very excited. I recently saw some of the beautiful background paintings from Tekkon Kinkreet and I just absolutely fell in love with the manga style, so I decided I wanted to go for a procedurally generated, more hand-painted, illustration look. Next up, I needed to decide on a setting and world that my stories would take place in and a style to render my images in.

So that was the basic idea for my project. It’s those little less glamorous - and usually quite funny for other people - on-the-job moments and frustrations that we can all relate to that I wanted to capture and make a series out of. It’s the pipe bursting on one side when you just fixed the other, or your software crashing when you forgot to save … for the last few few hours. Can you check it out?” by Sonja Christoph Can you check it out?” To me, it captured a one-of-those-days kind of moment that we all have. I got the idea for Atom County - which is what I’m calling this world and series - from a personal piece I did a while ago, titled “Mikey, Berta caught on fire again. Revealing the beginning of a new series of works with a beautiful illustrative style, Sonja puts V-Ray Next for 3ds Max to work for the first time and explores in this article some of the capabilities of version Next in her 3D illustration workflow.Īnd on that note: Welcome to Atom County! The concept Sonja Christoph’s curiosity for new software and rendering engines takes us on a journey into the visualization of a new world: Atom County.

Environment Artist Sonja Christoph puts V-Ray Next for 3ds Max through its paces to render a series of images with a hand-painted, illustration look.

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